Issue :	January & February
Date :	2009
Publisher :	Delyse Brown
e-Mail :	editor@genealogyworld.net
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Dear !*SUBSCRIBER*!,

Thank you for your Christmas and New Year greetings.
MY BEST WISHES AND THANKS GOES TO THE GENEROUS AND HARD WORKING CONTRIBUTORS TO GENEALOGY WORLD.
Without you there would be no website.
Unfortunately due to a stay in Hospital there were no Newsletters for November and December. I appreciated the kind concern of many of you.

Although all GENEALOGY WORLD information is easily accessible from the MAIN MENU - from time to time - we notice researchers being unaware of information we have available. Therefore please study the MAIN MENU carefully.

'GENEALOGY WORLD' - NEW ITEMS :

Rosemary Dixon-Smith reminds us:
1 December 2008 - 170 years since the abolition of slavery in South Africa.

FAIR:
Who Do You Think You Are?
Live! 27th February -1 March at Olympia

VERULAM BAPTISMAL REGISTER:
On this page Eira Makepeace includes her recent photographs of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Verulam and the Memorial plaque inside the Verulam Methodist church commemorating the Wesleyan settlers.

1820 SETTLERS:
Sue Mackay transcribes further items from CO53/5 and CO53/6 at the National Archives, Kew, London:
Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser 1840
Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser 1841
Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser 1842
Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser 1843.

ROBIN's LISTS:
Thanks to Shirley Paladin for allowing us to transcribe her original Passenger List:
Giulio Cesare, Genoa to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban, departed 23 Jul 1936.

WEB SITE VISITORS WRITE:
Vaughan Holmes lists the following names:
They Started Umtata
Umtata Plot Owners in 1882 (excluding farms).

ANGLO-ZULU WAR:
Revision is a new article written by Sapper.

GSSA:
GSSA Newsletter - The 2008 4th Quarter - is now available.

ANGLO-BOER WAR:
Christo Swart has written to inform us of new information regarding 'Rooi Faan' (Bermuda Prisoner of War):
It was stated: 'He died in Krugerspan in 1958 at the age of 81.'
Erratum:
He actually died in Krugerspost in 1958 and was buried in a farm cemetary on Krugerspost. His date of death on the headstone 1951 was a mistake. It should read 1958.
Christo has sent us a photo of the headstone.

MISSIONARIES:
Chris Woods now includes extracts from his notes on Prof. Rev. William Charles Willoughby F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. on Page 3. Also included are photographs, a very charming one of a painting of Tiger Kloof. Jim Wilkinson, a distant relation of Chris in Australia, also helped with the explorations into W.C.'s life. This research is an ongoing project.

TRANSCRIPTIONS and GENERAL SHIPPING LISTS:
Transcribed by Charlie Fison:
Christenings, Marriages and Burials of the Military Chaplain at The Cape from 1795 - 1803 (from Ms 11569 at the Guildhall) Library, London.

NATAL SCHOOLS:
In this section Rosemary Dixon-Smith has included her recent photographs of Michaelhouse.

URL OF INTEREST:
www.naval-history.net
This website contains complete Royal Navy and Royal Marine casualty lists from pre-1914 to 2008, including both World Wars, and supporting information on battles, actions, convoys, warships, merchant ships and ship losses, and allows for photographs of lost soldiers, and is designed to complement the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website as a repository of information on the Navies.

What Passenger Lists are Online?
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

BRICK WALL and MISSING PERSONS:
A reminder to check these pages from time to time in case you are able to help other researchers.

BEGINNER's GUIDE and a recent response:

Genealogy World receives many queries from people starting their family tree research, some wanting to be included in Brick Wall and/or Missing Persons, others general enquiries.

The BEGINNER's GUIDE - although this is the first item in the Main Menu on the Home Page of Genealogy World - it often gets overlooked. Therefore frequent e-mails have to be sent to the enquirers requesting he or she reads the Beginner's Guide! Needless to say that this is the best place to make a start if not familiar with South African methods of research.

You may like to read a recently received e-mail from one of our recent enquirers:

"Your information and website really got us started and I am pleased to say that we have traced the Howses in South Africa from *'s gt gt grandfather going out early in the 1850s to her grandfather returning to England in 1899. We were able to get copies of the Death Notices of the Howses and some Openshaws from LDS films and found the information on these very helpful. We have also obtained some documents such as Liquidation and Distribution Accounts from the Cape Archives and these too have proved very useful.

As well as the South African Howses, we have been able to trace the English Howses in a group of villages in Gloucestershire back to a John Howse born 1570 died 1653. We have also found a John Howse of Ampney St Mary who died in 1545, almost certainly an ancestor as that was the village in which the Howses lived in the early periods. However, we cannot claim him as yet since the gap in the chain remains outstanding.

This email is just to say thank you very much for all your help which has proved invaluable in our research into *'s South African ancestors."
* this lady prefers not to include her name

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